A question of access - revisited
13 September 2012
The Office of Fair Trading is the latest body to test whether small firms get a fair deal with government contracts. David Arminas asks: will it find anything new?
Over the next few months, a consultancy will be knocking on the doors of central government purchasing heads asking them to help with yet another procurement review. This time, it will be on behalf of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which is concerned that government contracts distort competition and lock out small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the annual...